In the info output, visually validate that there is an available version
containing "2.6"

yum upgrade ambari-server

For SLES:

zypper clean

zypper info ambari-server

In the info output, visually validate that there is an available version
containing "2.6"

zypper up ambari-server

For Ubuntu/Debian:

apt-get clean all

apt-get update

apt-cache show ambari-server | grep Version

In the info output, visually validate that there is an available version
containing "2.6"

apt-get install ambari-server

Important

When performing upgrade on SLES, you will see a message "There is an update
candidate for 'ambari-server', but it is from different vendor. Use 'zypper install
ambari-server-2.6.1-143.noarch' to install this candidate". You will need to to use yast
to update the package, as follows:

From the command line run: > yast.

> yast

You will see command line UI for YaST program.

Choose Software > Software Management, then click the
Enter button.

In the Search Phrase field, enter
ambari-server, then click the Enter
button.

On the right side you will see the search result ambari-server
2.6. Click Actions, choose
Update, then click the Enter
button.

Go to Accept, and click enter.

Check for upgrade success by noting progress during the Ambari Server installation
process you started in Step 5.

As the process runs, the console displays output similar, although not identical,
to the following:

If the upgrade fails, the console displays output similar to the following:

Setting up Upgrade Process No Packages marked for
Update

A successful upgrade displays output similar to the following:

Updated: ambari-server.noarch 0:2.6.1-143
Complete!

Note

Confirm there is only one ambari-server*.jar file in
/usr/lib/ambari-server. If there is more than one JAR file with
name ambari-server*.jar, move all JARs except ambari-server-2.6.*.jar to
/tmp before proceeding with upgrade.